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Resilience: the new super-differentiator for financial services careers
Difficult times call for a different set of skills. With very good and even exceptional people finding it difficult to find new jobs or get back into the market, it’s no longer simply about being exemplary at what you do (although this is also important): it’s about having the will to keep on doing it [...]
Excitement as a bank declares its intention to hire 200 traders, sales and research staff
It all appears to be happening at Mitsubishi UFJ. The Japanese bank has placed itself above the parapet and said it wants to hire 50 currency and interest rate derivatives traders and 150 sales and research staff. It may find itself submerged beneath CVs. Exciting as Mitsubishi’s plans are, they may not make a great [...]
Advice to M&A bankers: Your jobs are less vulnerable than they may currently seem
2012 has started unpromisingly in M&A. Advisory revenues were down 34% year-on-year in the first quarter at JPMorgan, 23% year-on-year at Citigroup, and 37% at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In the first quarter of 2012, global M&A fees fell to their lowest level since the second quarter of 2009. Europe was a bit better, [...]
A Q&A with Anil Hansjee, the former investment bank software engineer who became Google’s main M&A man in EMEA
Anil Hansjee has had quite a career. Having started out as a programmer at Swiss Bank Corp, now Union Bank of Switzerland, he moved into a risk-product role at Chemical/Chase (now JPMorgan) before making an unusual move into corporate finance. From there, he moved to the buyside and venture capital, and from there he moved [...]
Things you might want to think about before joining Morgan Stanley’s fixed income business
We’re not saying that Morgan Stanley is hiring. According to its website it has a mere two jobs going in its front office fixed income business in London – both for rates traders. But if you are feeling friendly towards Morgan Stanley following last week’s blowout fixed income results, there are a few reasons why [...]
How you can tell if a recruiter’s jobs are real
There aren’t as many jobs around as there were. Even recruiters say so. At the last count, Morgan McKinley said London financial services jobs were down 57% year-on-year in March 2012; Astbury Marsden thought they fell 11% month-on-month. But recruiters and headhunters have to do something. Many are still out there, soliciting candidates, making calls. [...]
A South African MBA is the ‘best value for money in the world’
South African graduates who want to improve their chances of getting a good job in financial services might be wondering where to go to do a Master in Business Administration (MBA). To help their choice, we have asked some of the country’s top recruiters what their advice would be. Their answer is unanimous: there is [...]
Q&A: A credit trader explains why the best of his breed are a polished, charismatic, tenacious, combination of lawyers, accountants and risk managers
We spoke to a seasoned credit trader about what life is really like in his chosen profession. This is what he told us. Q: How long have you been a credit trader? A: I started in credit trading after the bank’s graduate analyst 10-week bootcamp (which started a month following the end of my undergraduate [...]
Important lessons on redundancy, parenthood, and spouse selection from a banker of experience
Having been eradicated from Bank of America last year, Sallie Krawcheck has opened up to Marie Claire magazine. Unlike Erin Callan, Krawcheck has not moved to the Hamptons with an old and not unattractive male friend she met at school, who is now a fireman. She is happily married to Gary Appel (her second husband and [...]
A simple graph illustrating why it is that your sales or trading job will be safe at JPMorgan
It’s not that JPMorgan doesn’t make redundancies. In Q1, it let 292 people go from its investment bank. However, JPMorgan seems less prone to big headcount cuts than its rivals. Since the end of 201, it has reduced headcount at its investment bank by 607 people and steadfastly refused to announce any bigger cuts. Goldman [...]
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